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>it is not even mildly economically feasible
Brilliant Pebbles has matured into economic viability
When it was first a thought experiment, a statement like "just launch 4,600 satellites bro" was an unfathomable shitpost; as of right now the Starlink constellation alone has 8,949 satellites

Falcon 9 has reduced the cost of orbit by about 70%, which is why it's currently used more than every other rocket in the world combined. If Starship ever works that number goes above 90%. People make the comparison "a 10MB hard drive used to cost $10,000" but the one I prefer is "Napoleon served heads of state with aluminum dinnerware, minor nobility had to settle for gold" or the fact that the Washington Monument has an aluminum capstone because that was the most extravagant flex proving that America was now a world power

Today we wrap burritos in it